Selected Press
On the occasion of our presentation of All Walks of Life, a vibrant group exhibition on view at our Hong Kong gallery though January 18, 2024, we spoke with each of the seven artists featured in the show: Anthony Cudahy, Katja Farin, Aubrey Levinthal, Laurent Proux, Daisy Sheff, Sarah Slappey, and Fabian Treiber.
In Katja Farin’s eight-by-six-inch painting Dog Attack People Stack, 2019, three standing figures bent at the waist are piled on top of one another in an intimate but inexplicable arrangement. Their brown-, green-, and ocher-skinned bodies are purposefully unresolved—their musculature is unarticulated, their facial features barely marked.
How do we interact with space, and other bodies, as artists, as subjects and as viewers? This is what Los Angeles-born artist Katja Farin explores through figurative painting and the staging of exhibitions. She works on a shifting scale, from nearly life-size to miniature, and likes how that changes the way an audience interacts with her work; moving closer to some works and stepping back from others, we become more physically aware of our bodies in space.